Iyas Shahin

An interactive visual art project that explores the meanings of memory, time and space. M³, here, signifies a volume whose dimensions consist of borders, memory and time. The “cube” of Damascus shaped by these virtual boundaries expresses the barriers that hem us in, the brink we fear to transcend, the edge of the precipice. They also define what lays outside the walls, the shape of a new life and an aspiration to attain, and we experience borders as an obstacle that cuts us off and pins us down by identity, place name and affiliation.